Blu-ray Review: Watchmen – The Complete Motion Comic
British writer Alan Moore (From Hell, V for Vendetta), British cartoonist Dave Gibbons, and British writer and artist John Higgins combined talents in the mid 1980s to create a series of twelve DC Comics depicting the adventures of a group of irreverent superheroes known collectively as the Watchmen. The threesome turned the comics into a […]
DVD Review: Room 222 – Season One
Room 222 was a half-hour comedy-drama that aired on ABC from 1969-74. Set at integrated Walt Whitman High School in Los Angeles, Room 222 is credited with breaking new narrative ground in television. The series, created by James L. Brooks (Rhoda, Taxi) was one of the first shows to deal with such hot button issues […]
DVD Review: Poison Ivy 4 – The Secret Society
Back in 1992, the original Poison Ivy served to relaunch Drew Barrymore’s career after she had emerged from years of alcohol and drug addiction. That film was nominated for a coveted Grand Jury prize at Sundance and went on to earn a respectable cult following, but an ill-conceived pair of increasingly absurd sequels–Poison Ivy II: […]
DVD Review: Friday the 13th, Part 3 – 3-D Deluxe Edition
Paramount was ecstatic. The low-budget slasher flick Friday the 13th had been a surprise hit and its sequel had done solid business as well. However, the tide seemed to be turning against them. The MPAA was cracking down on horror films and the public was becoming more concerned about what effect violence in the movies […]
DVD Review: Bewitched – The Complete Seventh Season
As a big Dick York fan, I have to admit I never totally adjusted to Dick Sargent as Durwood, Derweed or whatever his name was. The seventh season was Sargent’s second in the role and by then he seemed to almost fade of the screen. I kept thinking he might bring some originality to the […]
DVD Review: Night Court – The Complete Second Season
Night Court aired on NBC from January 1984 until May 1992. Though the series was moved around a lot on NBC’s schedule, Night Court was a solid favorite with viewers, remaining in the top thirty of the Neilsen ratings during its first six seasons on the air. Night Court creator Reinhold Weege, had previously been […]
DVD Review: Secret Diary of a Call Girl – Season One
” I’m very high class, which means I charge by the hour, and I charge a lot. ” — Belle Created by British writer Lucy Prebble, Secret Diary of a Call Girl originally debuted on ITV2 in the United Kingdom in 2007, before being broadcast on Showtime in June 2008. The series is loosely based […]
DVD Review: Dallas – The Complete Tenth Season
Dynasty, The Colby’s, Falcon Crest, I loved ’em all! The eighties was the heyday of the nighttime soap. Rich families jockeying for money, power and position, willing to take out one of their own to get it; of all the nighttime soaps, Dallas was the undisputed King. Centered on the Ewing clan, anchored by Larry […]
DVD Review: The Tudors – Season Two
Created and completely written by Michael Hirst (Elizabeth (1998) The Tudors is very loosely based on the early reign of monarch Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers). For anyone who hasn’t seen The Tudors before, be warned; the series does not pretend to be factual and has been criticized for stretching the truth. Creator Michael Hirst […]
Blu-ray Review: Dexter – The Complete First Season
As a fan of Blu-ray, I was thrilled when learned that Showtime was releasing Dexter in the high-definition format. For those of you not familiar with the series, the show is based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay and adapted for television by James Manos, Jr. (The Soprano’s, The Shield). The series […]